Amazon Web Services (AWS) and HUMAIN, a Public Investment Fund (PIF) company focused on global full-stack AI solutions, have announced plans to deploy and manage up to 150,000 AI accelerators within a new data center facility, termed an “AI Zone,” in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This announcement was made during the U.
S.-Saudi Investment Forum and establishes AWS as HUMAIN’s preferred global AI partner.
The expanded partnership aims to bring AI compute and services from Saudi Arabia to customers worldwide. The new AI Zone will be Saudi Arabia’s first, designed to support advanced AI training and inference workloads. It will feature the latest NVIDIA GB300 AI infrastructure alongside AWS’s Trainium AI chips, enabling customers to transition from concept to production rapidly by leveraging NVIDIA infrastructure and AI software integrated with AWS services.
This infrastructure is intended to serve global enterprises and technology innovators, addressing both Saudi Arabia’s national AI requirements and the growing worldwide demand for compute resources. The AI Zone will also provide access to specialized AWS generative AI services, including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon AgentCore, and Amazon SageMaker, offering a unified platform for accessing leading foundation models without direct infrastructure management.
As part of the initiative, HUMAIN will join the AWS Solution Provider Program, facilitating broader access to AWS services for accelerating AI adoption regionally and internationally. This development follows a joint announcement in May 2025 regarding an investment exceeding $5 billion in AI infrastructure, AWS services, and AI training and talent development within Saudi Arabia.
Tanuja Randery, Managing Director, Europe, Middle East & Africa, AWS, emphasized the significance of the collaboration. “By combining HUMAIN’s local expertise and investment with AWS AI solutions—including our advanced infrastructure, hardware partnerships with NVIDIA, the transformative AI platform Amazon Bedrock, and AI solutions for business users including Amazon Quick Suite—we’re establishing a world-class innovation hub that will serve customers across Saudi Arabia and around the globe,” Randery stated. She added that HUMAIN, as an AWS Solution Provider, will empower organizations to leverage generative AI and drive agentic transformation for businesses and government entities.
Tareq Amin, CEO of HUMAIN, described the AI Zone as the start of a multi-gigawatt journey for HUMAIN and AWS. “From inception, this infrastructure has been engineered to serve both national priorities and the world’s accelerating demand for AI compute,” Amin noted. He highlighted the scale of ambition and innovative commercial model as key differentiators, aiming to create an ecosystem that will shape how AI solutions are built, deployed, and scaled globally.
Beyond infrastructure, the collaboration is set to accelerate AI adoption across public and private sectors, advance the development of Arabic Large Language Models (LLMs), including HUMAIN’s “ALLAM,” and establish a unified AI agent marketplace for government services. These efforts support Saudi Arabia’s goal to become a global AI leader.
To foster a skilled workforce, AWS plans to train 100,000 Saudi citizens in cloud computing and generative AI through the Amazon Academy, in partnership with PIF. This includes a dedicated initiative to upskill 10,000 women. These programs are aligned with preparing the workforce for an AI-powered economy, projected to contribute $130 billion to the nation’s GDP by 2030.
